aoe ( th road a thejr are 70-pouad rails. Just what disposttioa th ottb-ment ottb-ment would auk of th road efiar h Arrow Bock dam i completed la aot kaowa is tkia city. It might eoatiaa to operate it for supply purpoeee, or it aught aall it ta aoma private parties tor opcratioa. governi:entoti:ed RAILROAD PLANIiED ALONG fHE PAYETTE Uncle Sam Hay Boild Line to Solre Transportation Problem. Ia addition to owning a railroad across th isthmus of Panama, of which it haa made a financial sueceee, Uncle Bam will likely have a railroad of hi own ia th United States. The ownership will not ba secured by foreclosure of a mortgage or other methods of one of the present railroads, nor by the method of government ownership own-ership so long advocated by certain political agitators. The road will be built, ownrl and operated by tha government. gov-ernment. Uncle 8am will engage the eontraetore for th grading, will pur-rhaea pur-rhaea th ties and steel and poeeibly the rolling stock, though It may b derided de-rided t rent this part ef the -road equipment. Tbe road will h built ia Idaho aad will he about twenty Or mil long. It will raa from a point on th Barley branch of th Oregon Short Ian kaowa as Harber dam up tha Payette river to where the government will shortly rommeaea th work of constructing what will ha known a th Arrow Rock dam. a lart of the great Boise Payette irrigatioa projoet on which the government govern-ment ha been working aaveral year. The eetimated cost of this dam is $4,000,000, and it is said that tha government gov-ernment has decided that it would be cheaper to build a railroad than to try to haul the material for th dam by teams to the sit. According to a private dispatch received re-ceived in this city the government has let a contract to the Illinois Steel com-piny com-piny for (U.ftOO tons of rails for tbe building of the road. Loral officers of the Oregon Short Line said this morn-ing-that tbe government was seriously considering the project of building tbe road, though they doubted if the United States would place aa order with one of the big steel companies for such an amount of rails. It was explained ex-plained that the government bad been considering the advisability of purchasing pur-chasing the necessary rails from the Short Line, ueing rails now in us by that rosd which will soon be replaced by heavier steel. It is said that these rsils could b purchased at a much less pric than new rsils and would answer everv pur-